Welcome to the museum. Were at the prologue. Tonewall an uprising at a gay bar in new york city that propelled forward the modernday lgbtq movement. This is where they used the freedom of speech, the press, peat, assembly, religion, to really change society. Were going to washington around the corner and look at some artifacts from two of the earliest lgbt rights oarizati s organizations that rose up. Gay people could be arrested for showing affection in public, police prowled parks to arrest people seeking assignations there. This is when you saw social groups, when people are meeting in secret in their homes, largely, to talk about what its like to be a gale mass or a less by yay woman. Here you see some artifacts from the mattachine society, a matchbook passed on to people in Public Places people they thought were likeminded. Are you gale . I am, too. Lets talk about it. This is a legal book published. It gave them advice about what their rights were when dealing with the police. Ov
committee is holding a hearing on the implications of the supreme court overturning roe v. wade. this is live coverage, here on c-span three. if you like to submit materials, please send them to the email addresses previously distributed to your offices. we will circulate the material to members and staff as quickly as we can. before we start, i would like to warn the members that because we have full 12:30, i will have a tight gavel, five minutes on the dye. i will now recognize myself in an opening statement. what is the meaning of freedom in america in 2022? this is the question that we as a society must confront today in the wake of the supreme court is appalling decision in dobbs versus jackson women s health organization, which eviscerated the constitutional right to abortion, and laid the groundwork for a radical reshaping of our fundamental liberties. as we reckon with the consequences of this decision for women s health and individual liberty, we must also consider w
construction here manufacture and you go back and ask all the people who grew up in this beautiful place what they d rather have. do they want the plant back with everything it had or what you re going to have? i will be dumbfounded if you find anybody other than for pure sentimental reasons saying, i would rather have a coal plant. i ll end by telling you another quick story. when we moved from scranton when coal died in scranton, everything died in scranton. and my dad was a coal miner. my great grandfather was a mining engineer. but my dad was in sales. and there was no work, so we left to go down to delaware. i told you where those oil plants were. but i remember driving home, when you take the trolly in scranton, going out north washington and adams avenues, within 15 blocks we didn t live in the most prestigious neighborhood in the region, in the town, where the scrantons and other good decent people live there was a you would go buy a wall that my recollection
one person who will not be in the room? yeah, that s committee chairman congressman bennie thompson. he s announced that he has covid. it s not clear if the chairman will appear virtually, but he says that his covid diagnosis will not disrupt the committee s plan. members say this eighth hearing will focus on the 187 minutes the former president trump failed to intervene as his supporters marched on the capitol, swarmed the halls of congress, and did this, took over the building there. also today, a jury has now been seated in the trial of trump s chief strategist, steve bannon. bannon is facing two criminal counts for failing to comply with subpoenas from the house january 6th committee. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles joins us now from capitol hill. so, what is the committee hoping to learn from these witnesses, matthew pottinger and sara matthews? reporter: victor and alisyn, they re firsthand witnesses to what was happening inside the white house on janu
aide to then president trump s chief of staff mark meadows. the fallout continues as americans look to a post roe future. the abortion debates in states. in ukraine new details about the russian missile strike on a shopping mall leaving more than a dozen people dead. we begin this hour with breaking news of a horrific human tragedy in san antonio, texas. believed to be the most deadly smugging tragedy in recent history. the bodies of at least 50 migrants found in the back of a truck. the death toll is at 50 by the mexican president. officials say they likely died of heat stroke. temperatures of 100 degrees outside likely much hotter inside that trailer. no windows. no ventilation. take a look at the truck. completely sealed. officials say it appears it was not refrigerated. 16 people were able to survive including 4 children taken to hospitals. officials saying they were hot to the touch and extremely weak. the president of the mexico said seven from guatemala. two from hon